Virat Kohli Retirement T20I: Along with becoming the new champion of the T20 World Cup, Indian team’s star player and former captain Virat Kohli has created another new record. For Virat Kohli, today is the biggest and historic day of his cricket career. Virat Kohli had won the World Cup before this as well, but that was the ODI World Cup. Kohli played the T20 World Cup for the first time in the year 2012. After this, Team India reached the final of the T20 World Cup in the year 2014, but there it had to face defeat from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli has created another new record by becoming the Player of the Match in the final. The special and interesting thing is that he has left his own teammate Suryakumar Yadav behind.
Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings in the final of T20 World Cup
After becoming the new world champion of T20 cricket, tears were clearly seen in Virat Kohli’s eyes. As soon as Hardik Pandya bowled the last ball of the match, there was a celebratory atmosphere in the entire Indian team including Kohli and Rohit. The entire stadium echoed with cheers. After this match, Kohli clearly announced that this is his last T20 match. That is, now he will not be seen playing T20 International. The special thing this time was that Kohli’s bat did not perform in the way he is known and recognized for in any match before the final. But the kind of innings the biggest player played in the final in the biggest match will be remembered for many years to come.
Virat Kohli won the Player of the Match award in the final
Kohli was also given the Player of the Match award for his brilliant innings. Virat Kohli now has a total of 16 Player of the Match awards in T20 International cricket. He has played 125 T20 International matches so far during his career and has become Player of the Match 16 times out of them. Earlier, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav were at par in this matter. Both had won this award 15 times. Suryakumar Yadav won this title 15 times by playing only 68 T20 International matches. At the same time, Rohit Sharma has won this award 14 times by playing 159 T20 International matches. Now Kohli has gone ahead of everyone. On one hand, while Kohli’s T20 International career has ended with becoming the world champion, Suryakumar Yadav still has a lot of time and he can leave Kohli behind again. The special thing is that Kohli has ended his T20 International career at a high level, which every player desires.
Most Player of the Match awards in T20 International
Virat Kohli: 125 matches: 16 awards
Suryakumar Yadav: 68 matches: 15 awards
Rohit Sharma: 159 matches: 14 awards
Sikandar Raza: 86 matches: 14 awards
Mohammad Nabi: 129 matches: 14 awards
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